The top five states were Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, which had scores from 87 to 90.
“You pick an industry and you think from a talent perspective, ‘If I can’t get the best and brightest for my organization because of some law or some patchwork of laws in our country, that’s bad for my business,’” Sears explained. “That makes it hard for people to want to move to Georgia, or Tennessee.”
The report assigned scores on measures falling in five categories: legal and nondiscrimination protections; youth and family support; political and religious attitudes; health access and safety; and work environment and employment. Each measure is given a score on a scale of one to five: 25 points is the lowest possible score, and 100 points the highest.
Categories assessed, for instance, whether states have laws against employment nondiscrimination, allow people to change their legal documentation, ban conversion therapy or ban discussing LGBTQ relationships in schools — “
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